Have you ever felt the need of backing-up your flash drive entirely? I mean keeping a backup of the stuff you’ve got on your USB Disk maybe as easy as just copying it all off to a folder on your hard drive - but how about a nicely compressed single-file image… something similar to the partition backup images created by Norton Ghost, Acronis TrueImage and the likes?
Here’s this tiny (97KB compressed) freeware utility named USB Image Tool that lets you do just that - minus the bulk and complexities of the above mentioned programs. The tool helps you create exact images of your USB memory sticks or MP3 Players (which are mounted as USB drives). Talking of MP3 Players - think of the ability to alternate between pre-defined sets (images) of music with the help of this tool.
Here’s a quick run-down of the features…
- Create image files of USB drives
- Restore images of USB drives
- Compressed image file format (using XZip 1.3 routines)
- Display USB Device information
- Maintain a list of your favourtie images
- Single click backups and restores through an extremely simple interface
The tool requires .NET Framework 2.0 to operate - so make you sure have it installed.
Incidentally, if you are still in the habit of using those frail little floppy disks, you can very well take the help of DiskXS - a similar tool by the same author, to create backup images of your disks before they decide to give up on you.
Get USB Image Tool here.
If you’ve ever wanted to share PowerPoint presentations on the web but cursed at the lack of of a way - iSpring Free can do it for you for free! It’s this really cool plug-in that inserts itself into PowerPoint and provides you with a button that creates …
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Here are two extremely funny renditions of the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) that is such a part and parcel of the whole Windows series… I dug them up from this site today.
Have fun !
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The default file copy method in Windows (any given version) is severely handicapped. First and foremost - it’s SLOW. The probably the worst part of it is that there’s no way to resume on error. Supposing your file copy operation throws up an error (say, due to some …
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Just came across this new free service named Chawt which lets you send unlimited SMS (text messages) to any mobile phone across the globe (to over 160 countries). The service is brought to you by a company named Breathe Mobile. The site seems brand new (domain registration is as recent as 10th June, 2008) and the creator(s) have taken a …
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Another quick announcement. I just released another version (0.9) of curreX - the Ajax based Currency Converter widget for WordPress.
Starting from this version, curreX also includes a Flash based widget and provides you with the option of selecting between the HTML/JavaScript version and it’s Flash counterpart from the widget configuration panel of WordPress.
A quick preview of the flash widget can …
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Here’s a nice trick I learnt a couple of days back. I wanted to display my feed subscriber count in a way that would match my site’s theme. I was tired of the vanilla feed-count display provided by FeedBurner - probably because you can find it on almost every other site these days (and I wanted something unique). So I …
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Here’s a quick tip for those who have been plagued with problems while using curreX v0.7 (the Ajax based Currency Converter Widget for WordPress). I’ve released a new version v0.8 yesterday, fixing most of those issues.
Please grab a copy from here or the WordPress plug-in repository and update your installation to fix all the earlier problems.
If you run into any …
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